

“Clients are continuing to talk about how do you change and evolve your customer care service from purely a cost center to a value center? How do you create value for your end customers to ultimately drive profit and add value for your organizations?” Sridhar said. Today's challenges with customer engagement often stem from customer experiences that are fragmented into different channels, preferences, and platforms. Microsoft has also signed agreements with chipmaker Nvidia to relieve some of the regulatory pressure over the sale, which it must close by Tuesday to avoid a potential $3 billion termination fee.What sort of customer care issues keep CXOs and CIOs up at night? For an answer to that question, experts from Avanade and Accenture joined MSDW for a recent webcast and a podcast to discuss today's contact center challenges and how to resolve them with solutions built on a range of Microsoft business applications and services.Ībi Sridhar, Avanade's North America Lead for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement says that his team has had "a front row seat to Microsoft's innovation, including in areas of AI and how they are empowering people as well as organizations and transforming customer care." “Even after we cross the finish line for this deal’s approval, we will remain focused on ensuring that Call of Duty remains available on more platforms and for more consumers than ever before.” “From Day One of this acquisition, we’ve been committed to addressing the concerns of regulators, platform and game developers, and consumers,” Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a tweet. And Microsoft did not disclose the duration of the deal. Sony did not immediately reply to a request for comment Sunday. and aboard over the past few months, but it’s been trailed by objections from Sony, which feared losing access to what it describes as a “must-have” game title. The company has been seeking regulatory approval in the U.S.

Microsoft struck the deal for Activision in January of 2022 in hopes of expanding its video game imprint beyond Xbox, which has less market share than longtime industry leader Sony and its PlayStation device. appeals court on Friday rejected a bid by federal regulators to block Microsoft’s acquisition.
